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Posts tagged with 'JohnWatson' at MetaFilter.Sun, 08 Mar 2015 08:38:56 -0800Sun, 08 Mar 2015 08:38:56 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weaponhttp://www.metafilter.com/147724/Sherlock%2DHolmes%2Dand%2Dthe%2DSecret%2DWeapon
Have you ever wondered just how Sherlock Holmes got information out of the people he spoke with? Well, <a href="http://spacefall.livejournal.com/617375.html">wonder no more!</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147724Sun, 08 Mar 2015 08:38:56 -0800LemurrheaOn finding unexpected thingshttp://www.metafilter.com/145827/On%2Dfinding%2Dunexpected%2Dthings
<a href="http://www.themarysue.com/coworker-hulk-fanfic/">What To Do When You Discover Your Co-Worker Writes Erotic Hulk Fanfic.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.145827Sat, 03 Jan 2015 18:55:52 -0800homunculusJust do it alreadyhttp://www.metafilter.com/142646/Just%2Ddo%2Dit%2Dalready
"And yes, I get that sexuality is fluid and all of that, but honestly, can't they just do it and get it over with? Either that, or shut up about it." <a href="http://decider.com/2014/09/10/are-sherlock-and-watson-gonna-bone-or-what/">Are Sherlock and Watson Gonna Bone, or What?</a> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2708469/Make-Sherlock-Holmes-Dr-Watson-gay-lovers-fans-urge-BBC.html">Make Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson gay lovers, fans urge BBC</a> (<i>Daily Mail</i>)
<blockquote>Mr Gatiss, 47, told Australian gay magazine DNA: 'Oh my God. I get sent things that would make your hair turn white. It's not just Sherlock and Watson holding hands on a park bench, I can tell you that.
'Some of them are incredibly graphic but my goodness I've not tried half the things they're doing.'</blockquote>
<a href="http://mic.com/articles/79081/sherlock-s-watson-is-not-gay-but-he-s-not-straight-either"><i>Sherlock</i>'s Watson Is "Not Gay," But He's Not Straight Either</a>: "But what bugs me about Watson's response to Mrs. Hudson is the pretty glaring reality that he <i>does</i> love Sherlock and wants to spend his life with him."
"The actor [Andrew Scott], who plays villain Moriarty, is more than happy with the amount of attention fans give to creating erotic fantasy starring him and Sherlock" (<i><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sherlock-star-andrew-scott-loves-4058163">The Daily Mirror</a></i>)
<i>Vulture</i>, <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/sherlock-watson-best-friends.html">Sherlock and Watson Are TV's Best Male BFFs</a>: "...the episode was, fully, a love story &ndash; and not the one between the newly wedded Watsons. 'The Sign of Three' occupies a place between buddy comedy and rom-com, emphasizing over and over how much Watson and Sherlock love each other. It's so much, you guys! They really, really love each other."
Previously: <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/135324/Moffat-listens-to-fans">Moffat listens to fans?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142646Wed, 10 Sep 2014 20:32:17 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesomeThe search for psychology's lost boyhttp://www.metafilter.com/139575/The%2Dsearch%2Dfor%2Dpsychologys%2Dlost%2Dboy
"<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/The-Search-for-Psychologys/146747/">He pictured sitting down with Albert</a>—who would have been in his 80s when Beck started searching for him—and watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMnhyGozLyE">Little Albert video</a> together." Little Albert <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/112976/A-New-Twist-in-the-Sad-Saga-of-Little-Albert">previously on MeFi</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.139575Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:50:32 -0800CatseyeTea should be hot.http://www.metafilter.com/118390/Tea%2Dshould%2Dbe%2Dhot
<a href="http://enigmaticpenguinofdeath.tumblr.com/post/26358790781/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-tea-habits">A Guide to Writing Sherlockian-Tea Habits.</a> In which EnigmaticPenguin (of death) schools fanfiction authors in correct English tea theory and practice. Follow up: <a href="http://enigmaticpenguinofdeath.tumblr.com/post/26434948304/a-guide-to-writing-sherlockian-biscuit-habits">Biscuits.
</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.118390Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:10:55 -0800The WhelkA New Twist in the Sad Saga of Little Alberthttp://www.metafilter.com/112976/A%2DNew%2DTwist%2Din%2Dthe%2DSad%2DSaga%2Dof%2DLittle%2DAlbert
<a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/a-new-twist-in-the-sad-saga-of-little-albert/28423">A relatively new twist in the sad saga of Little Albert</a> is challenging the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt0ucxOrPQE">traditional understanding</a> of the already troublingly unethical classical experiment. "<em>The experiment was conducted by John Watson in 1920 and was part of the psychologist's attempt to prove that infants are blank slates and therefore infinitely malleable. It has been recounted in countless papers and textbooks. One of the longstanding mysteries about the experiment, the identity of Little Albert, <a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/01/little-albert.aspx">was apparently solved in 2010 by Hall P. Beck, a psychologist at Appalachian State University. He and his co-authors argued that Little Albert was Douglas Merritte, the son of a wet-nurse who worked at the Johns Hopkins University, where the experiment was carried out.</a> Merritte died in 1925 at age six from convulsions brought on by hydrocephalus (also known as "water on the brain").
Now comes another twist–one that, if accurate, would change how the Little Albert experiment is viewed and would cast a darker shadow over the career of the researcher who carried it out.
<a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2012-01974-001/">
A paper published this month in the journal History of Psychology [ABSTRACT]</a> makes the case that Little Albert was not, as Watson insisted, "healthy" and "normal." He was probably neurologically impaired. If the baby indeed had a severe cognitive deficit, then his reactions to the white rat or the dog or the monkey may not have been typical–certainly reaching universal conclusions about human nature based on his reactions wouldn't make sense. The entire experiment, then, would be a case of a researcher terrifying a sick baby for no valid scientific reason (not that using a healthy baby would have been ethically hunkydory).
But what makes it worse, the authors of the paper argue, is that Watson must have known that Little Albert was impaired. This would turn a cruel experiment of questionable value into a case of blatant academic fraud.</em>" tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.112976Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:59:30 -0800Blasdelb